tat-14 gone down, north pipe, internet slow or not workin all uk effected

[Marky]

There was a problem with the TAT-14 line that connects the US to most of
Europe which has caused a large number of sites to become unavailable.

Apparently the Southern leg was already down due to some faults, and the
Northern part has also had a failure this evening.

Someone mentioned that AboveNet/MFN have been completely cut off from
Europe, indeed I can't reach them outside of the UK.

http://www.kddiscs.co.jp/e/business/02_15.html

"About the TAT-14 Cable Network - This transatlantic cable system is in full
service, connecting the United States to the United Kingdom, France, The
Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark.

The cable system is a dual, bi-directional ring configuration using DWDM
multiplexing with 16 wavelengths of STM-64 per fiber pair. The system also
utilizes reverse direction protection switching in the event of failure of
the service fiber.

It has a dual route, transatlantic capacity of 640 Gbits on 2 service fiber
pairs backed up by 2 protection fiber pairs. This configuration provides a
capability of transporting 4,096 STM-1's or approximately 9,700,000 circuits
across the ocean."

[Tx2]

In article <bq0p5q$v0p$1...@news7.svr.pol.co.uk>, ne...@nospam.com, a.k.a
Marky says...

> There was a problem with the TAT-14 line that connects the US to most of
> Europe which has caused a large number of sites to become unavailable.

This is rumoured to be because of a DOS attack involving NTL, BT and
Zone Labs. There is speak of it in the UK Broadband Usergroup forums.

[Jim Crowther]

In message <MPG.1a308ae5f...@News.CIS.DFN.DE>, Tx2
<tx2newscollec...@hotmail.com> writes:

Mostly because the benighted Crack Marketing Team at ZL demanded that
the auto-update feature (generally a Good Thing) could not be manually
over-ridden 'permanently', and as ZL was unobtainable, the DNS servers
got a hammering.

ZL will issue a patch soon. <sigh, this is the *second time*>.

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